Nagarhole National Park under great pressure

CC Staff

Many issues, some of them quite shocking, are jeopardizing the future of Nagarhole(Rajiv Gandhi) National Park.

A few of them are mentioned below;

  • Increase in man-animal conflict due encroachment of forests, mushrooming of resorts and the menace of poaching.
  • No buffer zone. Long standing demand of the forest officials and NGOs ignored by the Government.
  • Illegal collection of firewood and cattle grazing in the park.
  • Inadequate staff. Out of sanctioned 106 guards, 49 posts are vacant.
  • Obsolete firearms with the forest guards. Currently many “roam around with lathis and machetes” on their duty.
  • Most arms of forest guards under police custody, for opening “fire against poachers”.

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